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Re: IDIOT No one is arguing the potential of 1Gb service. The argument is that we do not NEED it today and we do not NEED it in the very near future. There is no current demand for it today.
Will we need it in the future? Certainly. Do we need to push to make sure that every house has it in the next 2-3 years while bankrupting as many people as possible? Nope. (Remember the dot bomb build outs?)
The important thing that this project does is provide a place in which to develop the that future need so that there is future demand to which providers will provide.
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| said by battleop:No one is arguing the potential of 1Gb service. The argument is that we do not NEED it today and we do not NEED it in the very near future. There is no current demand for it today.
Will we need it in the future? Certainly. Do we need to push to make sure that every house has it in the next 2-3 years while bankrupting as many people as possible? Nope. (Remember the dot bomb build outs?)
The important thing that this project does is provide a place in which to develop the that future need so that there is future demand to which providers will provide.
I recall a similar argument when dialup was king and DSL was just rolling out.
Doubtless, the slow to respond will die. Just ask Earthlink. Doubtless also, many new businesses will grow. Just ask Amazon, Roku, iTunes, Netflix, and, and... |
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There is not a damn thing wrong with being ready.Why do people like you always want to be behind the 8 ball rather than infont?Dot com means shit in this climate.This is and will continue to be the online climate for decades to come.Apps and programs will come and go as will the iphone but the net will still be there |
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| If you don't lean from mistakes (see dotbom era) you at doomed to repeat them again. Lots of companies over built with no real need and many went belly up. Phone companies regardless of size do not have endless supplies of money
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 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
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Montreal, QC
kudos:20 | If Google really is deploying this all on GPON (rather than 10GPON), they're deploying exactly the same type of network as Verizon is using for FiOS. They only difference would be that Google is setting the max rate per customer higher (and potentially using a lower split ratio per node).
It's hard to argue that that's overbuilding, since there is no real technical difference between them promising 100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps per customer; it's the same physical deployment either way.
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| Does this give any possible insight to the Google infrastructure?
»www.google.com/patents/US20110299851 |
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